In non-PC mode

[carolynwhite2]

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "dungrollin" 
<spotthedungbeetle at h...> wrote:
> 
> I'm half-way through "How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World" by Francis 
> Wheen; if you haven't already read it, I think you'd like it.
> 
> Back in Africa again, and there's another bloody murder by witchcraft 
> trial in the village at the moment. It's ever so depressing, and the 
> poor old madwoman that they blame strange deaths on has confessed 
> again.
> 
> Thanks for the link, anyway, that cheered me up. 
> 
> Dot

Carolyn:
Haven't read it - I'll take a look on Amazon when I next do an order. 
He's one of Hoggart's regulars on the Newsquiz I think.

As I live in Haringey, where poor little Victoria Climbie was tortured 
to death by her relatives because they thought she was possessed by the 
devil, your village in Africa doesn't seem so very far away. All 
covered up by black-on-black stuff within the social services 
department, ashamed to admit to white people that this sort of thing 
could happen in Britain. Plus there was that black boy's torso ['Adam'] 
that they found in the Thames, which they thought was a ritual tribal 
killing. 

If the woman has been accused before, is it likely she will get off 
again?

Carolyn